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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 29 June 2018
- Reg 203 of 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and Status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   6.      Interpretation
   7.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   8.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   9.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   10.     Vision
   11.     Objectives
   12.     Strategies
   13.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   14.     Basis for water sharing
   15.     Climatic variability
   16.     Extraction management unit for these water sources
   17.     Flow reference point
   18.     Flow classes for these water sources
   19.     Determination of flow management

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   20.     Environmental water provisions
   21.     Planned environmental water
   22.     (Repealed)

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   23.     Basic landholder rights
   24.     Domestic and stock rights
   25.     Native title rights
   26.     Harvestable rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   27.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   28.     Requirements for water under access licences
   29.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   30.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   31.     Share component of unregulated river access licences
   32.     Share component of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   33.     Share component of aquifer access licences
   34.     Changes to total share components

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   35.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR GRANTING AND AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

   36.     Granting and amending water supply works approvals
   37.     Runoff harvesting dams and in-river dams
   38.     (Repealed)
   39.     Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals
   39A.    Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   40.     Limits to the availability of water
   41.     Extraction management units for these water sources
   42.     Long-term average annual extraction limit
   43.     Variation of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   44.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   45.     Available water determinations
   46.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   47.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   48.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   49.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   50.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences

   PART 11 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   51.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   52.     Water allocation accounts
   53.     Accrual of water allocations
   54.     Accounting of assigned allocations and return flows
   55.     Volume taken under access licences
   56.     Limits to the volume that may be taken under access licences
   57.     Carrying over of water allocations credits and water allocation account limits

           Division 3 - Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis

   58.     Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis
   59.     Total daily extraction limits
   60.     Initial assignment of the TDEL to categories of access licence
   61.     Unassigned TDEL
   62.     Daily extraction limits for individual access licence holders
   63.     Granting of unassigned TDEL
   64.     Very low flow access in these water sources
   65.     Access rules for the taking of water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
   66.     Infrastructure failure in these water sources

           Division 4 - Management of local impacts

   67.     Management of local impacts
   68.     Water level management
   69.     Water quality management
   70.     Infrastructure failure in local impact areas

   PART 12 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   71.     Access licence dealing rules
   72.     Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
   73.     Rules for change of water source
   74.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   75.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   76.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   77.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 13 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - General

   78.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   79.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   80.     General
   80A.    Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments

   PART 14 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   81.     Monitoring and reporting of performance indicators

   PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   82.     Amendment of this Plan
   83.     Amendments due to floodplain harvesting
   84.     Amendments for Coastal Sands Water Source
   85.     Amendments for alluvial aquifers downstream of the tidal limit
   86.     Amendments for stormwater harvesting
   87.     Other amendments to this Plan
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3


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